The best LG phones you can buy: high-end, midrange, and budget
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there in the land of smartphones, and there are only a few top names that manage to both stay afloat and innovate every year. LG is among them — despite suffering a lot of losses in the mobile market in recent years, LG continues to move forward, restructuring its portfolio and looking for unique features to offer to its users. And yes, we will be seeing more of them in 2020.
So, what are the best LG phones out there right now? Let’s take a quick look!
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Top-tier
LG V60 ThinQ
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The V60 ThinQ does also have a Dual Screen accessory, which is listed as a separate buy, but a lot of places offer it bundled with the V60 as a promo offer. It somewhat transforms the phone into a foldable — not as fancy as the actual bendy devices out there, but still functional enough.
LG G8x ThinQ
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The latest G series phone LG released late last year. The LG G8x did away with the Z Camera module of the G8, which allowed it to shrink the notch cutout on the screen. To make up for taking away one feature, LG added another — the G8x also supports its own Dual Screen accessory.
It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of the LG V60, but it’s still a pretty good top-tier smartphone. To top it off, the G8x comes with the Dual Screen included in the box — no need to splurge extra for it.
LG G8 ThinQ
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It seems LG gave up on the Z Camera for the time being, so the G8 ThinQ is probably your best option if you want to try one of these. Besides, it has gone down in price considerably since launch, making it a pretty good buy over some midrangers on the market.
Mid-range
LG V40 ThinQ
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So, the LG V40 is two years old by now. However, if you are thinking about going for an LG V50 from 2019, we’d suggest against it — it still costs $1k, making it more expensive than the current-year LG V60!
So, here we are suggesting the LG V40. Priced at around $350, it’s probably the best LG smartphone you can buy nowadays. Yeah, its processor is getting a bit old in the tooth, but the phone still has a beautiful design and competent cameras.
Five of them, to be exact — wide, ultra-wide, and telephoto on the back; regular and wide-angle on the front.
LG G7 ThinQ
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LG Stylo 5
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The Stylo 5 comes equipped with its own stylus, but don’t jump for joy thinking it’s Samsung S Pen-level sophisticated — it’s just a regular, run-of-the-mill capacitive stylus. That said, the Stylo 5 rocks a spatious 6.2-inch display with a 1080 x 2160 pixel resolution. It’s powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 450 and has 3 GB of RAM while a 3,500 mAh battery keeps the lights on.
In other words, it’s a midranger through and through. You can grab it unlocked for $200 or get the slightly upgraded LG Stylo 5+ on contract ($10 per month) with AT&T. Still not as good of a deal as an LG V40 for $350, though.